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Revision as of 10:54, 11 July 2011
Summary
The Doctor is on the trail of a sentient book entitled "a bestiary of legendary and magical creatures". The Doctor tracks the book to Earth where it begins creating mythical creatures such as Unicorn and a Phoenix. The Doctor with the help of a talking cat and a house-bound neighbor, manage to defeat the book as it creates a dragon from human and animal body parts. After the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS a strange rash on the house-bound neighbor transforms into the Doctor, who quickly defeats the books final creation before dissolving into nothingness.
Characters
- Eighth Doctor
- The Bestiary of Legendary and Magical Creatures
- Margaret
- Fire
- Marmaduke
- A cat, given the power of thought by the book.
References
- The Bestiary of Legendary and Magical Creatures is a sentient book which tries to make the fictional contents of its pages a reality.
- Thinking books work in the same manner as audiobooks, apart from they work with thought processes.
- The book creates a unicorn from toilet paper.
Notes
- This story was adapted for audio by Heroic Efforts Productions.
Continuity
- Fire alludes to a point in the Doctor's future where the use of fire will cost the Doctor everything he has. (DW: The Sound of Drums)
